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For the past few weeks, I’ve been uploading some of my older digital images to SmugMug, one of several great online destinations for digital images. (To learn why I chose SmugMug, read my earlier article here). Even though I have multiple backups of my image library, I don’t have any offsite backups, so if my house ever burned down, I’d loose over 40,000 files, many of which are priceless. Anyways, while uploading the pictures, I got to the 2004/2005 collections and was surprised at how good these images look despite that they were shot with an early model Nikon D70 (click here for a great review published when this camera was released). The Nikon D70 was the first “affordable” Nikon digital SLR and had a whopping 6 megapixel...

I often get asked what equipment I use. I shoot a Nikon D300 with a Nikon 18-200mm AF-S DX VR lens. Prior to the D300, I used a Nikon D200 and prior to that, a Nikon D70. I now take the D200 as a backup.
I have a 8GB high speed CF card and several 4GB and 2GB CF cards as backups. Typically, the 8GB will get me through a flight.
I always shoot in RAW mode at ISO 200 (minimum on the D300) and typically shoot in manual mode with a shutter speed of around 1600 at F6.3. Obviously, I change this depending on lighting.
Although my lens has vibration reduction (hence the “VR”), to be honest, it doesn’t really play a role in aerial photography. The vibrations and movement is so fast, I’m forced to shoot at a high shutter speed with or...

Although we fly out of Tampa, Tiger Aerial Photography frequently shoots locations in Miami (over 60 in the past 3 years). Miami is a good looking city from the air and we always enjoy it. We almost always have to work with Miami air traffic control and I have to say, they are some of the nicest controllers we’ve ever dealt with.
Check out the picture below – you can clearly see Miami International in the background. We’ve had to shoot pictures within a mile of the airport on multiple occasions.
Here are a few of my favorite shots from Miami. Notice that the colors are not quite what CSI Miami shows 😉
Another gallery – http://www.tigeraerial.com/colliersawf63/
You’ll find many other samples at...